Tag Archives: Mayo

Happy Birthday to Us! We are 7 Years Old!

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Warren Woessner

In fact, Patents4Life’s birthday was in late March of 2009, but the earliest posts were short papers I wrote for an IP newsletter that no longer exists. However, the s. 101 storm clouds were gathering even then. One article (in … Continue reading →

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Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Merck – Mayo/Alice Rule Reaches Medical Treatment Methods.

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Warren Woessner

In Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Merck, Civil Action No. 150572-GMS (D. Del., 2016), Bristol-Myers sued Merck for inducing infringement of U.S. Pat. No. 9,073,994. Claim 1 reads: “A method of treating a metastatic melanoma comprising intravenously administering an effective amount of … Continue reading →

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Ariosa v. Sequenom – Rehearing En Banc Denied

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Warren Woessner

Not surprisingly, the Fed. Cir., on December 2nd, denied Sequenom’s petition for rehearing en banc of the invalidation of certain of the claims of U.S. Pat. No. 6,258,540 which were directed to methods of detecting and using cffDNA. (Appeal no. … Continue reading →

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Sequenom’s En Banc Petition

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Warren Woessner

Sequenom’s Petition for Rehearing En Banc – Panel Ignored “Inventive Concept” in Combined Steps of the Claimed Method For any of us practitioners encountering increasing numbers of s. 101 rejection rejections of diagnostic claims based on Mayo and the March … Continue reading →

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